Ubuntu
plymouth package

  1. Bug #849414
  2. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 849414

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 849414] Re: plymouthd crashed with SIGSEGV in ply_event_loop_process_pending_events()

Charlie,

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 07:35:17PM -0000, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
> Experienced this issue after a fresh Xubuntu Oneiric Ocelot installation
> using the image dated 2011-09-29. Unfortunately, the crash occurred on
> the first restart after installing. Specifically:

> 1. install Xubuntu
> 2. remove cd and restart computer by hitting Enter
> 3. login to the desktop
> 4. open a terminal and run "sudo apt-get update", "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade"
> 5. after updates complete, click on name in panel, click on reboot
> 6. login
> 7. observe crash report

> After the crash, Plymouth does not start immediately, but shows up
> immediately before the lightdm screen. It is almost a flash of plymouth.
> I was not able to reproduce the crash.

Could you please check the timestamp of the crashfile, to verify whether
this plymouth crash corresponds to the *first* boot after install, or the
second? (Sometimes there are delays in apport crashes being reported to the
user. This is normal, but it does sometimes make it awkward to understand
what caused the crash.)

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